--- title: A platypus stuffs food from the riverbed into its cheek pouches and… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: A platypus stuffs food from the riverbed into its cheek pouches and chews it at the surface with hard horny pads, because adults have no teeth; it must come up to breathe, so filling the pouches saves trips. Who acts: platypus, adults, food, filling. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (platypus, adults, food, filling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:043-platypus-and-echidna.lesson:11 # text = A platypus stuffs food from the riverbed into its cheek pouches and chews it at the surface with hard horny pads, because adults have no teeth; it must come up to breathe, so filling the pouches saves trips. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 043-platypus-and-echidna.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stuffs stuff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 riverbed riverbed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pouches pouch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 chews chew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 horny horny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:xcomp 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 filling fill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pouches pouch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 41 trips trip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stuff** | present | a platypus | food | | the riverbed | | into riverbed's cheek pouches | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme into pouch=Destination | | 2 | **chew** | present | a platypus *not said here* | food | | the surface | | with hard horny pads | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | adults | no teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **come up** | must | food | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | food *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fill** | gerund | | the pouches | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pouch=Patient | | 7 | **save** | present | filling | trips | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:043-platypus-and-echidna.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/10/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/)